Charting the frontier: Indigenous geography, Arab-nyamwezi caravans, and the East African expedition of 1856-59

Victorian Studies

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 103-137

  Wisnicki, Adrian S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 70449936904     PISSN: 00425222     EISSN: 15272052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2979/vic.2008.51.1.103     Document Type: Article

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